Lead AHP - Adult Therapies

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To have responsibility for the delivery of the Allied Health Care strategy across the Allied Health Care services. Operational responsibility to be able to deliver the high standard of clinical care and modernisation of services.

2. Manage human and material resources within their designated area and be responsible for ensuring Allied Health Care meet cost targets that are part of a larger budget held at Head of Service level, to ensure financial sustainability within the care group.

3. Responsible for the staff governance arrangements in relation to professional regulation, supervision, and revalidation, ensuring a workforce that is fit to practice.

4. Performance manage direct reports, and enable personal and professional development that underpins the strategic direction of the organisation and ensures effective delivery of high quality care.

5. Maintain and enhance standards of patient care, through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives, regular service evaluation and developments that involve patients/users of the service.

6. Provide day to day professional leadership and management of the Allied Health Care workforce to ensure efficient and effective use of manpower, patient outcomes, patient experience and patient safety is mitigated.

7. Provide clinical advice and expertise to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered in order to reduce the risk to patients and that the safety of the patient journey is maximised.

8. Communicate national and local policies and initiatives that impact on patient and Allied Health Care including polices, guidelines and competencies and implement these in practice to ensure practice remains contemporary and in-line with good practice.

9. Provide specialist Allied Health Care input to the Head of Care Group, Head of Profession and other key managers to enable them to progress service development, business planning and service delivery.

10. Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams in furthering the clinical governance programme ensuring safe and auditable practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Applicants must hold a Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy as well as a Postgraduate management qualification at Level 7 or equivalent or significant practical management experience.
• Current registration with the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) is essential and you will be required to register with the Jersey Care Commission under the Health Care Registration Jersey Law 1995.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Health and Community Services

Address

Jersey General Hospital

The Parade

St Helier

JE1 3QS

Employer's website

https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)